Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.